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MH17, Israel invasion: Mr. Obama, abandoning our allies isn’t a strategy, it’s a disaster

“We have enormous input about this that points fingers,” Secretary of State John Kerry told CNN’s State of the Union Sunday. “It is pretty clear that this was a system from Russia, transferred to separatists. We know with confidence that…

Security camera surge in Chicago sparks concerns of ‘massive surveillance system’

Between traffic-light cameras, blue-light cameras that scan neighborhoods for violent crime, cameras on board city trains and buses — not to mention private security cameras — there are few places you can go in Chicago without being monitored. In the…

Soviet-born congressional candidate looks to make history

Igor Birman, shown here, is running for Congress in California. (Igor Birman) During the darkest days of the Cold War, some in Washington feared a Communist infiltration inside the highest reaches of the government. It would have been unimaginable then…

New Crimean Parliament Votes In Favor Of Leaving Ukraine While U.S. Imposes Sanctions

It seemed that the situation in embattled Ukraine couldn’t get any more complicated, but it has. Today, Crimea’s new pro-Russian regional government voted in favor of leaving the country for Russia and will put it to a regional vote in…

In State Of The Union, Obama Fails To Rise To The Challenge Of The Moment

President Barack Obama delivers the State of Union address before a joint session of Congress on Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2014. (AP Photo/Larry Downing, Pool) President Obama took the stage tonight for his annual State of the Union address on shaky…

America’s willful blindness — Obama is a divider not a unifier

The much discussed Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll, which was released Thursday morning, shows a sharply divided America. Not much new there. Half of those surveyed think that the across-the-board spending cuts that went into effect on Friday with the…

150 years later, Union sailors from USS Monitor to be buried at Arlington

The bodies were found when the USS Monitor’s rusty gun turret was raised from the ocean floor. ( National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) Two Navy sailors slated for heroes’ burials at Arlington National Cemetery have waited a century and a…

Republicans need to quit complaining and start cooperating with Obama

Tonight, the president of the United States of America and the leader of the party that won the election in 2012 set forward a strong plan not only for the next four years but the next four decades of American…

A ‘Sandy’ Santa visits the Jersey Shore

It’s around this time of year when Vanessa Beard hopes for a white Christmas. “Christmas is important to me,” she says as she walks around her home in Keansburg, N.J. “I look forward to it. Every year we go out…

Ed Asner defends crude union video, asks to "piss on" Fox News producer

Even Lou Grant never treated newsroom employees this badly. Ed Asner, the 83-year-old, seven-time Emmy Award winner who recently narrated an animated California teachers union video that initially depicted a rich man urinating on common folks, bristled when a Fox…